Although Martin was also a marshal, the weight of Martin's colonial marshal was obviously not comparable with that of Xia Fei and Frenzi, the two most powerful countries in the world, although Martin did not agree to continue the attack, although Gallerieni tried his best to dissuade him, although Smith Doring also objected, but just after the Battle of the Marne, the Anglo-French army began a new round of offensive, this time targeting Belgium.

The results of the Battle of the Marne were transmitted back to southern Africa, and Ade summoned Roque again, hoping that Roque would personally go to Europe as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force.

"Locke, you are the Viscount of Nyasaland, the Minister of Defense and Minister of War for Southern Africa, and the Marshal appointed by the British Empire, only if you go to Paris, can we better safeguard the interests of our Southern Africa." Ade is in turmoil, he is actually a long-time battle-hardened and no stranger to war, but the cruelty of the world war is obviously beyond Ade's understanding of war.

Ade was frightened by the report of the Battle of the Marne, the French suffered 260,000 casualties last month, and Ade could not care, because it was not the British who died.

Now that September is just over halfway through, the Anglo-French forces have already suffered more casualties than August, and the Southern African Expeditionary Force has also suffered heavy casualties, so Ade is really worried that the little force in southern Africa will not last until the end of the year.

According to official data, the total number of whites, Chinese, and Africans in southern Africa is less than 15 million, and even if there is concealment, it is not more than 20 million at most, and the total population of France before the world war exceeded 40 million, 45 million in Britain itself, and 67 million in Germany, so no matter how strong the industrial capacity of southern Africa is, the war potential really cannot be compared with the powerful countries of Britain, France and Germany.

A strong country not only has strong industrial capacity, but also has a very important population base.

Fortunately, there is still a population in southern Africa that simply can't figure out how many Africans can be squeezed, and as Winston said, southern Africa will squeeze Africans dry during the world war!

"Well, I'll be in France in a few days." Roque agreed to Ade's arrangement, originally Roque wanted to digest Southwest Africa and Tanganyika before going to France, but now it seems that Martin is still a little softer and can't withstand the pressure of Xia Fei and Frenzi.

That's the disadvantage of the visitors, no matter how good Martin is in Southern Africa, France is not Southern Africa after all.

"Do you want to bring the Northern Rhodesian Division or the 1st Cavalry Division?" Ade has no reservations about Roque's support, and even if Roque wants to take both the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division away, Ade will agree.

"No, the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division have to deal with the Tanganyikadian Army, and the Northern Rhodesia Division and the 1st Cavalry Division cannot leave Tanganyika until the Tanganyikat Army surrenders." Until the battle in Tanganyika is over, Roque will definitely not move the Northern Rhodesia Division and the 1st Cavalry Division.

"Then send a few more infantry divisions, you can't go to France with a group of African-American troops." It's not that Ade doesn't believe in African soldiers, Martin is in France, and the skin color of the soldiers under his command doesn't matter, Roque goes to France, and he still has to take care of face.

The color of a soldier's skin does not represent combat effectiveness, but skin color is a status symbol, and the servants in Yaya's family are almost all white, and it is for this reason that the servants in Yaya's family are almost all white.

"I transferred the 2nd Cavalry Division in Port Elizabeth." The Second Cavalry Division is a unit composed of mercenaries from the Umbrella Company, and the other division is the Third Cavalry Division, which is not far behind the Northern Rhodesia Division and the First Cavalry Division, and has more combat experience, and there are whites, Chinese, and Africans in the troops.

"Cavalry—" Ade didn't know that the current cavalry was different from the cavalry of the Boer War.

"The 2nd Cavalry Division does not ride horses and is equipped with trucks like the 1st Cavalry Division, but the 2nd Division has no armored units, and the production of tanks is still too small." Roque regretted that if there was an armored division now, then the war might really be over in six weeks.

Even if it can be ended in six weeks, Roque will not use tanks on the battlefield, although the world war is a catastrophe for mankind, but it is an opportunity for the rise of southern Africa, if the war really ends in six weeks, then what will so many military industrial enterprises in southern Africa eat.

Roque had been preparing for the world war for years, not just for a few weeks of good business.

"The 1st Cavalry Division and the Northern Rhodesia Division don't both have armored regiments—" Ade wanted to bolster Roque's forces as much as possible.

"Sir, Tanganyika is more important than France." Roque will not draw armored troops, and it will be about the same by the end of next year, when Southern Africa should be able to save one or two thousand tanks, and then Roque will prove the power of tanks to the British and French forces, and sell all the tanks to the British and French forces.

"Take Sidney with you, Sidney, your only task is to make sure that Locke does not go to the front, and preferably not even France." Ade sent Sidney Milner to watch over Roque, who was too important to Southern Africa for Ade to take the risk.

"Yes uncle, I will definitely watch Lord Nyasaland." Sidney Milner is serious, he has changed into a military uniform, and he is still a major general.

Roque, the secretary of defense, didn't know.

"Germany is not for South-West Africa and Tanganyika, Locke, be careful in everything." Adeqian told him that although Roque had brilliant achievements, he had not experienced the test of a large corps of combat.

On 15 September, Roque boarded a ship from Port Edward to join the 2nd Cavalry Division in the Sinai Peninsula before crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Marseille on 31 September, where he changed to a train to Paris.

At this time, the Anglo-French army had invaded Belgium, and together with the Belgian army, the German army fought fiercely in the fields of Flanders, which is known as the First Battle of Ypres.

As early as a week earlier, the German heavy artillery units had destroyed the fortresses on the outskirts of Antwerp one by one, and the Belgian army was forced to abandon Antwerp and join forces with the British and French forces to fight the German frenzied attack.

Smith Doring was right, the German elite had suffered heavy losses in the previous offensive, and the new reinforcements were newly drafted conscripts, many of whom were even students who had not graduated, and the youngest was only 16 years old.

After the capture of Antwerp, the elite troops of the German army of four armies were able to be withdrawn, some of them reinforced the Eastern Front, and some of them reinforced the Western Front, and the pressure on the British and French forces was not great, but because of the bad weather, the British and French forces advanced slowly, and the Belgian king opened the coastal sluice gates in order to delay the German offensive, and the sea water poured down and merged into the Flanders lowlands, the German attack was slowed, and the British and French forces could not launch an attack through chest-deep seawater, and the war situation was at a stalemate.

"We suffered heavy losses in the previous phase of the operation, and now there are only three infantry divisions and two infantry brigades left, with a total strength of 56,000, and the commander-in-chief of Xia Fei sent us reinforcements from two artillery brigades, but only 75 mm infantry guns, and Marshal Frenzi completely disregarded our firepower inferiority, and the daily order was only to attack, to attack, and I am sorry Lord-" Martin was ashamed, perhaps because in the Battle of the Marne, the army of southern Africa performed too well, so in the next battle, The armies of Southern Africa were used as the main force.

It's a bit ruthless.

"It's not bad, there are more than 50,000, better than I imagined-" Rock Wen soothed, Martin is going to Port Elizabeth next, and he also has a great responsibility: "Next you go to Port Elizabeth, and when the troops are ready, they will prepare to attack Basra and Damascus, the Ottoman Empire will enter the war in October, you have to occupy the Ottoman province of Damascus before the Anglo-French army, get the mouth of the Mediterranean, in the Sinai Peninsula, you have the highest military rank, don't care about other people's orders, I only have one request, To take the Sinai Peninsula, at least the Persian Gulf coast. ”

Roque only asked not to interfere with Martin's specific command, this time to France, Roque took the second and 11th cavalry divisions, the 202nd division, the second cavalry division and the 11th division are 18,000 integrated divisions, the 202nd division has a smaller number of 15,000 people, plus the existing troops, the southern African expeditionary force in France exceeded 100,000 for the first time.

In the evening, as usual, the welcome dinner was held, and Roque went with Chief of Staff Paul Corker and Adjutant Sidney Milner, who was hosted at the famous Palace of Versailles, hosted by French President Raymond Poincaré.

Incredibly, France now has no prime minister.

Gaston Dumerg resigned after less than a month as prime minister, and then Raymond Poincaré appointed Alexandre Ribault as prime minister, but Alexander Ribault only served as prime minister for three days and then left behind, Poincaré has not yet found anyone willing to be prime minister, and French prime minister is indeed a high-risk profession.

"Marshal Locke, welcome to France, and I hope you will have a good time here—" Raymond Poincaré was a successful lawyer, a member of the Académie Française, and a best-selling author.

"Your Excellency, it's a pleasure to meet you—" Roque smiled, this was Roque's first trip to France, his second trip to Europe, and the last time he was in London, and the impression he left on Roque was not pleasant.

"Allow me to introduce you, this is the great commander-in-chief of the French army, Marshal Joseph Chauffy—" Raymond Poincaré gave Roque enough face, and the French government officials and army generals were all present, as were Frenzi, Haig, and Smith Dohrin of the British Expeditionary Force, and the dinner was attended by the bearded Peter of the Kingdom of Serbia, who had distinguished himself in the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia some time earlier.

After the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia, it launched an attack on the Kingdom of Serbia, and a day after the occupation of Belgrade, Peter with a rifle on his back announced that he would launch a counteroffensive against the Austro-Hungarian army alone, relieving the soldiers of the oath that they must fight for the king and the country.

Peter succeeded in arousing the patriotism of the officers and soldiers, and the veteran general Radomi Putnik led his troops to stubbornly drive the invaders out of the Kingdom of Serbia.

Speaking of Radomi Putnik, he was still traveling in Austria before the outbreak of the world war, but was captured by Austria-Hungary, although the chief of the general staff of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Joseph Conrad, suggested to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph to kill Putnik, but Joseph still sent Putnik back to the Kingdom of Serbia according to medieval etiquette.

Franz Joseph is the Song Xianggong of Europe.